, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
And we know as well that energy debt has become deeper. Those people in fuel poverty are in even more severe fuel poverty. I just want to come back specifically on the winter fuel payment, because we know that we've heard from Care & Repair that older people…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
There was a lot more support available then, though, wasn't there? That's the point as well.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Thank you. I'd just like to—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to go back to the responses we had to the first set of questions. So, the fuel poverty scheme and the targets and the data that will be used to denote the levels of fuel poverty will not take into account the effect of limiting…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to come back on the Chair's point about the data not perhaps being as useful as it could be, and not taking into consideration things that have changed since last autumn. One of those things, of course, is the change in the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
As I mentioned during the Plaid Cymru debate on waiting lists last week, one of the consequences of the current state of our health system is the deepening of health inequalities, which costs our NHS more than £300 million a year and continues to seriously…
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Topical Questions
I also welcome, following the calls I made on the Government yesterday to increase its support to the immense humanitarian efforts needed to rebuild homes, hospitals, businesses, communities and lives, that there is now a further £100,000 being contributed in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Diolch. The University and College Union has written to each of us who represent areas with universities in them, urging us to raise the funding crisis in Welsh universities. I was glad to hear the Cabinet Secretary say that the education workforce is our…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
3. How is the Government supporting and future-proofing the universities of Wales? OQ62156
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you, Llywydd. And I declare an interest before I ask my question, Llywydd, namely that my husband is employed by Swansea University and a member of the University and College Union.
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
'For a better future', a hopeful theme, but it's difficult to muster hope as we observe Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2025. It's 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hope in the face of Auschwitz can seem little more than an unfounded…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like to ask for a statement from the Government, please, following the ceasefire that came into force in Gaza on Sunday, which could perhaps contain a response to the following points. Oxfam Cymru has written to every Member of the Senedd asking us to…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Long waiting lists are not merely a symptom of a health service on its knees, they also reflect deep-rooted inequalities in the provision of healthcare, which are becoming increasingly stark. No-one seeking medical treatment should have to choose between…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: New UK Government's first six months
I want to speak specifically about the reference in the motion today to the winter fuel allowance, because while Plaid Cymru agrees with the contents of the Conservatives’ motion today, in terms of regretting that the Labour Westminster Government has…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch yn fawr. There are young people in Wales at this moment considering taking their own life and, for young people in the LGBTQ+ community, the statistics are alarming. Figures from the Trevor Project suggest that almost 60 per cent of LGBTQ+ people are…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
4. What is the Welsh Government doing to support the mental health of young people? OQ62095
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Just on that gender pilot, has any of the learning of the budget, has that influenced, has it fed into, the development of this draft budget?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
But no dialogue with the UK Government as yet on this.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
It's also relevant for comprehensive school-aged children as well, isn't it, of course?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
In comprehensive schools too.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
So, you don’t have a date at the moment for when the ticket will come back. In terms, then, of the training that you mention in your paper for local authorities regarding those with no status, no recourse to public funds, we know that this has caused problems…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Just a couple of brief questions about the nation of sanctuary. I’m sure that you agree, Cabinet Secretary, that the support for the aspirations of a nation of sanctuary are more important than ever, and our support for asylum seekers and refugees, in light…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. We were expecting, weren't we, some sort of timetable for the phases of the Welsh benefits charter. A year ago, you launched that and said that we would have an announcement about the timetable as to how it would be implemented…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you. One other thing that a lot of people were looking for, I think, in this budget was some kind of action taken by the Welsh Government to mitigate the fact that the UK Government have removed the winter fuel payment for a large number of older people…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
So, you are content with the allocation that you have given in your budget for this year, that it will mitigate the impacts for those groups affected and who provide services, like the one that Tenovous have quoted.
